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Works

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHousing
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House

Kirinda House – Tsunami reconstruction project

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Nomadic Museum in New York

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Institute

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Conceptually parallel to the “Furniture House 1”, this gallery space contains a series of exhibition units that double as structure....
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
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Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Cinema Complex Nagaoka

Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
The design of this commercial building, primarily a cinema complex, unifies diverse leisure facilities into one establishment. By making the...
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Boathouse

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Works
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Veloqx Akasaka

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Escalators spiral around the oval Veloqx building housing restaurants, bars and cafes at all floors, offering 360 degree panoramic views...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Australia
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Housing
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Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Australia
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Brisbane Condominium

Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Australia
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
This 18 storey condominium tower is composed of two rows of reinforced concrete structure of alternating double-height concrete cells, creating...
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Australia
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Itabaschi Headquarters

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Running parallel to the streets on the east and west, the two wings of the GC building are united by...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

GC Nagoya Building

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
“GC Nagoya Building” is an office for a dental equipment corporation that contains office spaces, a seminar facility, and a...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Works
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Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Brandeis university rose art museum

Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
The design for the renovation and expansion of the Rose Art Museum strives to integrate the new and renovated programs...
Year: 2005
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Plastic Bottle Structure

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure

Frei Otto Laboratory

Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
The structure of this museum was dedicated to and designed in collaboration with professor Frei Otto. Three different sized domed...
Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect

Paper Temporary Studio

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
House and housing
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure

Hanegi Forest Annex

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
In order to guarantee sufficient parking space at the ground level, the one story high steel frame structure of the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Paper Dome

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Shutter House for a Photographer

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
This is one in a series of projects utilizing stacking glass shutters. The plan is organized from interior spaces and...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House

86 Rue St Antoine

Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Within the historical “Marais” district of Paris, this apartment building sits on a narrow site flanking an existing fire wall....
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: Lebanon
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
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Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: Lebanon
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility

AUB New School of Business

Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: Lebanon
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Responding to the scale of the neighboring buildings, the New School of Business is composed of a cluster of small...
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: Lebanon
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Territories Partages Exposition

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housing
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Glass Shutter House

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the height of the neighboring buildings and occupies half of the...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier

Paper Studio

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum PAM A

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, development and promotion of paper. PAM is divided...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Roof

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure

Wickerwork House

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Housing
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House

Schwartz Residence

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Inspired by the location’s unique topography, the abundance of trees and rocks on the site, and the surrounding New England...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure

Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
There is a day care center, a hospital and traditional homes near the site. Since the size of the gymnasium...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Bamboo Furniture House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Housing
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Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Eda Housing

Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Situated next to a train station, the Eda housing complex incorporates a commercial area. To take in the flow of...
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure

Church in Roppongi

Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Switzerland
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Works
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Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Switzerland
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Rietberg Museum

Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Switzerland
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
For this extension of the Rietberg Museum, designated as a cultural heritage, limited space was assigned in the park surrounding...
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Switzerland
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Picture Window House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The site is at the top of a small hill that extends out from the sea, so the architecture itself...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum PAM B

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
For the 924 m2 contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. The structural flame was conserved as is, with all...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial

Paper Memorial for World Trade Center

Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial
Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House

Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
For the people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Temporary Guggenheim Tokyo

Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure

Imai Hospital Daycare Center

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
The woven LVL structure that was proposed in the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” (2000) was also used in this Daycare...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Veneer Grid Roof House

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Naked House

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
Works
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition

Paper Pavilion for Kew Gardens

Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in...
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure

Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum

Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
After the “Hannover Expo Japan Pavilion” the design for the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” was the second collaboration with Professor...
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure